Crackling noise arises when a system responds to changing external conditions through
discrete, impulsive events spanning a broad range of sizes. A wide variety of physical …

The fiber bundle model describes a collection of elastic fibers under load. The fibers fail
successively and, for each failure, the load distribution among the surviving fibers changes …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

Under stress, many crystalline materials exhibit irreversible plastic deformation caused by
the motion of lattice dislocations. In plastically deformed microcrystals, internal dislocation …

The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for
engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and …

Paper is a material known to everybody. It has a network structure consisting of wood fibres
that can be mimicked by cooking a portion of spaghetti and pouring it on a plate, to form a …

We study the dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall driven by an external magnetic field
through a disordered medium. The avalanchelike motion of the domain walls between …

Recent experimental and theoretical progress on the study of crackling noise in the plastic
deformation of crystals, ferroelastics, and porous materials is reviewed. We specifically point …

We present a pedagogical introduction to self-organized criticality (SOC), unraveling its
connections with nonequilibrium phase transitions. There are several paths from a …